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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: :X in vi vs :x
Date: 6 Aug 1995 04:46:47 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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In article <3vpfja$dr3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Elmer Fudd <gil@cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
% who the f... came up with the arrangement in vi that the encryption
% command :X would be just a capital letter away from the exit command :x ???
I believe that would be Bill Joy. (Probably)
% is there any way to lock that person up permanently? if not, i would
He's already locked himself up, semi-permanently. Of course, most of us
don't consider Aspen CO much of a prison. ;^) Or creating the new
object-orientied operating system (OOOS?) that's going to save all of us
budding OS hackers from legions of idiot users and application programmers
for generations to come very close to "hard labor."
% settle for a safe guard mechanism to disable the encryption mode from
% wreaking anymore havoc in my files.
Use :q instead of :x. Or simply use ZZ from visual mode.
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